Testimonials & Awards

Professional Awards

Named a Future Leader in Marketing & CX by Reuters

Named a Future Leader in Marketing & CX by Reuters

Issued by Reuters Events Marketing & CX | Jan 2025

Issued by Reuters Events Marketing & CX | Jan 2025

Named one of 11 Future Leaders in Marketing & CX by Reuters. The individuals nominated by their industry peers and have stood out amongst a crowded class of outstanding young talent.

UXD Superstar Award

UXD Superstar Award

Issued by Lenovo UXD Leadership | March 2024

Issued by Lenovo UXD Leadership | March 2024

UXD Superstar Award: Nominated and voted for by UXD team peers under shared director, Chris Osborne.

Young Professional Leadership Award Finalist

Young Professional Leadership Award Finalist

Issued by ATHENA of the Triangle | September 2023

Issued by ATHENA of the Triangle | September 2023

The ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award is an extension of the original ATHENA Leadership Award® to honor emerging leaders in your community.

VP Team Excellence Award

VP Team Excellence Award

Issued by Lenovo, VP of User and Customer Experience | August 2023

Issued by Lenovo, VP of User and Customer Experience | August 2023

Cake Design Language Team: Manager: Diana Gerli, Team Lead: Mike DeMar, Team: Mallory Schultz, Angela Martin, and Mariana Saldukha

Awarded for contributions and work towards Lenovo's new design language which met a launch milestone in Summer 2023, reaching millions of users globally within Lenovo Vantage.

ERG Leadership Honorable Mention, 2023 Seramount ERG Impact Awards

ERG Leadership Honorable Mention, 2023 Seramount ERG Impact Awards

Issued by Seramount | May 2024

Issued by Seramount | May 2024

2023 ERG Impact Awards: Honorable Mention in sincere recognition of Angela Martin, Lenovo for your outstanding ERG Leadership contribution to workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion as the Board Chair of ABLE: A Better Lenovo for Everyone.

User Experience Design 2023 and 2022 Software UX award

User Experience Design 2023 and 2022 Software UX award

Issued by Lenovo UXD software, awarded by management | Awarded in both 2022 and 2023

Issued by Lenovo UXD software, awarded by management | Awarded in both 2022 and 2023

Yearly award given to one member of the team who has made significant project and cultural contributions.

CX/UX Team Excellence Award

CX/UX Team Excellence Award

Issued by Lenovo, VP of User and Customer Experience | June 2023

Issued by Lenovo, VP of User and Customer Experience | June 2023

Yearly award given to a team who has completed a project with top quality and value to our customers.

Customer Experience Excellence Award, Q3 2022/2023

Customer Experience Excellence Award, Q3 2022/2023

Issued by Lenovo, VP of User and Customer Experience | Feb 2023

Issued by Lenovo, VP of User and Customer Experience | Feb 2023

Quarterly award given to an individual or team for outstanding project performance.

Coworker Testimonials

Manager @ Lenovo

Manager @ Lenovo

Provided in year end review by Diana Gerli | 2023

Provided in year end review by Diana Gerli | 2023

User advocacy and empathy are the “core” of Angela’s UX superpowers, and one that is always growing and finding a stronger voice. Each year, she becomes a more mature figure in the space due to her solid fundamental of a user-focused compass.


Angela uses her strong empathetic foundation to positively shape the UX community as a mentor, mentee, and as an influencer in the professional space.

Manager @ Lenovo

Manager @ Lenovo

Provided in year end review by Diana Gerli | 2023

Provided in year end review by Diana Gerli | 2023

Angela is known as being dependable and knowledgeable for the projects that she supports. She has good time-management skills and is very often dealing with multiple design requests at once. This is not something that everyone can successfully manage, but it is one of Angela’s strengths.


A lot of praise for Angela revolves around all the great “stuff” that surrounds her design work, but it would be remiss of me to not mention her design and creativity, too. She produces exceptional design deliverables, using her creativity to drive new ideas and push for data-driven decisions.


Angela is consistently able to produce quality work both as a lone-designer or part of a design team. That’s called range.

Manager @ Lenovo

Manager @ Lenovo

Provided in year end review by Diana Gerli | 2022

Provided in year end review by Diana Gerli | 2022

…She is coming into her own as a UX figure with the power to influence her products… Strong passion to create the best product for the user. Angela doesn’t just talk the talk; she walks the walk by volunteering to go the extra mile. Extra design studies, additional user testing, educating herself on the relevant data, and much more. Angela wants to ensure that no stone is left unturned if it has the potential to improve the user’s experience… Powerful sense of empathy and inclusion. She advocates for the definition of the “everyday” user to include “EVERY” user. Angela is very grounding in the sense that she constantly reminds us just who the end user could be, across a wide range of demographics and types of ability.

Co-worker @ Microsoft

Co-worker @ Microsoft

Anonymous feedback | 2019

Anonymous feedback | 2019

Angela has a talent for design. She's able to whip up good presentations and great UI in the blink of an eye, and also has great ideas for user research. She's also always down to to help out with design, weather its doing random things for the Garage, or even helping her coworkers on random side projects.  Lastly, she's super fun and a good person. Even though she wears all black, her heart is full of warm colors. 

Co-worker @ Microsoft

Co-worker @ Microsoft

Anonymous feedback | 2019

Anonymous feedback | 2019

Angela is super social and inclusive of everyone on the team. She's also relatively fearless and always seems to know what she's doing for UX, and her confidence really rubs off on the rest of the team

Co-worker @ Microsoft

Co-worker @ Microsoft

Anonymous feedback | 2019

Anonymous feedback | 2019

You are a talented designer! Who nerds out about user experience and the user journey all the time -- and it's so cool.

You are super smart, and I like asking you questions because you not only give insightful answers, but also genuinely consider other perspectives on the issue.

Product Awards

Core 77 Design Awards | Noteable Honoree in Health & Wellness | Project: Herd

Core 77 Design Awards | Noteable Honoree in Health & Wellness | Project: Herd

Issued by the Jury for the 2021 Health and Wellness Awards by Core 77 | 2021

Issued by the Jury for the 2021 Health and Wellness Awards by Core 77 | 2021

European Product Design Awards | Honorable Mention | Project: Herd

European Product Design Awards | Honorable Mention | Project: Herd

Issued by the European Design Awards Committee | 2021

Issued by the European Design Awards Committee | 2021

First Place project overall | Fluxathon

First Place project overall | Fluxathon

Issued by SCAD's Future Leaders of UX club | October 2018

Issued by SCAD's Future Leaders of UX club | October 2018

Interface design, challenge: "Connecting people"

First Place in Physical Board Games | Global Game Jam 48 Hour Competition

First Place in Physical Board Games | Global Game Jam 48 Hour Competition

Issued by SCAD's Global Game Jam Committee | October 2019

Issued by SCAD's Global Game Jam Committee | October 2019

Game design, challenge: "What makes a home?"

First Place Overall in HardCore FoamCore Industrial Design Competition

First Place Overall in HardCore FoamCore Industrial Design Competition

Issued by SCAD's Industrial Design Department | March 2018

Issued by SCAD's Industrial Design Department | March 2018

Physical craft design, challenge: "Concept vehicle"

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Research Driven

Research Driven

Research Driven

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Research Driven

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UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Research Driven

Research Driven

Research Driven

Research Driven

Research Driven

Mentor

Mentor

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Mentor

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Speaker

Speaker

Speaker

Speaker

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UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Accessibility Advocate

Research Driven

Research Driven

Research Driven

Research Driven

Research Driven

Mentor

Mentor

Mentor

Mentor

Mentor

Speaker

Speaker

Speaker

Speaker

Speaker

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Writer

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